like yeah I’m pretty sure he’s an explicitly anti communist chud but lmao
This guy is literally this meme that comrades keep posting here
chuds will literally believe a video game NPC is a real person before they believe the same of a woman or black person
Sometimes I get baked and come to the trough specifically for comments like this
Westerners will believe a video game NPC is a real person before they believe the same of the Boers who are currently facing white genocide.
This already exist on the dreamcast
Don’t take a picture of me, I don’t want to be trapped for eternity in one spot!!!
S O U L E N T O M B E D
i’ll believe ai is sentient before i believe techbros are sapient
Fuck that’s a banger line
The people in 14th century paintings seem conscious.
Is this art or a simulated universe?
Super Mario 64 proves this theory.
Every copy is personalised!
in a few million years when octopi evolve long lifespans and a way to pass on their culture between generations, we’ll have a big laugh about all of this
I want to be friends with an octopus so badly. A few million years too early
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and how many arms have you got there?
ah, good. i was about to get the admins to tag your account with the “this user is suspected of being an octopus” message
Ah yes, a room with a bored man, also known as The Universe.
I feel like there’s some kind of subconscious existentialism in his choice of words there lol
He worked on bioshock infinite which has has a scene like this.
I must speak with Tom Universe
I wonder whether he does that on purpose.
He’s some weird techno libertarian.
hence the human leather cowboy hat industry in his game lol
Yah know it’s hard to gauge.
Rimworld is clearly trying to be SciFi Dwarf Fortress, and Dwarf Fortress has mechanics for some pretty Dark Fantasy shit, like the whole thing with Elves being cannibalistic. So like, Cyborgs who harvest human body parts? Psionic drones that make people go mad and rip others apart? Seems like some good SciFi-Horror shit.
But then you hear about the Dev’s weird politics and you go
For what it’s worth, industrial mermaid bone farming was a bridge too far for Tarn.
Well this is an interesting piece of lore…
Their refusal to change gay from being a character trait for all these years has always seemed a bit sus to me.
Bro freaking the fuck out then I show him a VHS of a dude in a room
Oh good, looking forward to the game being ruined by AI slop in a future update
The modding community will never let that game die
Everything I learn about the Rimworld dev increases my regret for having bought Rimworld
I don’t feel bad honestly. Rimworld is a community game in many ways. If I have 200 mods loaded, each with a different person’s creative vision, is it really just Tynan’s thing anymore?
Played a lot of Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress in my day, and the difference is that the Rimworld devs have always seemingly reveled in acts of cruelty while the DF devs tend to nerf them.
But I agree on the community aspect, not that every part of the community is good, but it’s a big community with a lot of good in it.
Oh no, dare I ask what else you’ve heard? I haven’t been keeping tabs on them
The devs are Gamergaters, doing the whole “ethics in game journalism is why we need to personally harass Zoey Quinn.”
Like they were still going on about Anita Sarkeesian “stealing donations” even after she released her tax returns.
Back in the day the guy got a lot of shit for implementing sexuality in the NPCs by having it so all women are bisexual by default and some are gay and no men can be bisexual period
I think that one was kind of an overblown internet outrage situation. The system of sexuality was implemented in a very hacky, jank way and was mostly intended to create a reasonable looking average result, where men and women typically ended up together but sometimes formed same gender relationships.
I actually think his comment from the time is a pretty interesting contrast to his current view on AI:
People tend to think of game characters as people, but they’re not. They don’t have internal experiences. They only have outward behaviors, and they are totally defined by those behaviors, because that’s all the player can see, and the player’s POV is the only one that matters.
His point here is that there was never any such thing as a gay, bisexual, or straight Rimworld character. There were characters who presented to the player the illusion of having these identities through the patterns of their relationships, and that illusion was upheld by some jank code that could be read as treating all women as bisexual or gay if you choose to interpret it that way. But none of that was ever player facing and therefore wasn’t part of the illusion intended to be presented to the player—again, in that illusion, most women appeared to be straight.
I’m not saying the code was good or shouldn’t have been implemented better, just that I don’t think the dev was trying to communicate anything with it.
This feels like splitting hairs when ‘gay’ as a player facing defined pawn trait has been in the game since 2016, where people were already pointing out its implementation was mechanically problematic since it took up the same slot of an actual personality trait.
Having the system function so that women without the gay trait do not refuse romantic interactions from other women, while men without the gay trait do refuse romantic interactions from other male pawns is a deliberate design choice that was worth questioning at the time.
And to give the dev some credit, he has since moved sexuality to its own system where it doesn’t take up a personality slot
While it’s too late for you: remember that Rimworld with the 4 big expansions is on GOG. There is it least one site that archives games from there. Sadly, only the windows version, but rimworld runs fine with wine and bottles.
LinuxRuleZ and johncena141 provide Linux native packs of RimWorld for those who
Oh nice, thank you, I know what I am going to do later
Me too, makes me regret less and less for pirating games, even ones I own for DLC I don’t want to pay for. I’m tired of supporting chuds and hyperexploited labor.
brother if you want an ai boyfriend just get an ai boyfriend its not that philosophical
The Mechanical Turk really seems conscious.
Is this a machine or a simulated universe?
This is the intellectual equivalent of like a male gorilla threatening to beat up his own reflection, this sucks lmao who the fuck is this guy to talk
